Alas, marital honor and duty are gone with the dirndl.

Nowadays, Dirndl may equally refer to either a young woman or to the dress.

Full, gathered skirts, known as the dirndl skirt, became popular around 1945.

For women, the traditional Dirndl has been subjected to some modern embellishments.

I slipped my glasses out of my dirndl pocket and put them on.

And not everyone can be convincing in braids and a dirndl."

But there is no hint of the dirndl or lederhosen in these clothes.

The Austrian dirndl was reflected in short, full skirts that wrapped to the side and showed the legs.

The dirndl consists of a bodice, blouse, full skirt and apron.

In her last years, her wardrobe consisted mainly of "Dirndl" dresses.

The Austrian upper classes adopted the dirndl as high fashion in the 1870s.

By funny she means a tiger-striped dirndl with an apron covered in rhinestones.

She often appears at the end of her shows in a dirndl or pleated skirt with high heels and a cardigan.

I'd stuffed the trunk with dirndl skirts and off-the-shoulder blouses.

She works for her overbearing father in a German-themed bar, serving beer while wearing a dirndl.

But Ms. Karath is not about to don another dirndl.

She'd even restyled one of the dresses into a dirndl, and looked like a fresh young maid from the beer cellar.

Three dolls, puffed in dirndl skirts, sat up frozen-faced on the pillow.

Zoe Eldritch, his daughter in dirndl and fur slippers, appeared.

The dirndl is mostly worn in Austria and Bavaria.

"And the little dirndl back in Dresden?"

If anyone knows about the current dirndl trend, it's Ms. Paltinger.

Pioneers" collection of dirndl skirts and prairie dresses.

Clara clutched at her dirndl skirt, concentrating.

A woman wearing a dirndl with white blouse is usual in Bavaria and rural Austria.